Question

How to find the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string with VB.NET

Answer 1

Imports System

Class Program
	Public Shared Sub Main()
        Dim str As String = "I bought running shoes, but they started running alone, now we are both happy"
        Dim substring As String = "running"
		
        Dim position As Integer = str.IndexOf(substring)

        If position <> -1 Then
            Console.WriteLine($"The first occurrence of " & substring & " is at position: " & position)
        Else
            Console.WriteLine("Substring not found!")
        End If
    End Sub
End Class


' run:
'
' The first occurrence of running is at position: 9
'

 

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